Word: brazile
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This is a legal and geopolitical issue as well as a moral one. Brazil has successfully challenged our cotton subsidies in the World Trade Organization (WTO), and a recent congressional report admitted "all major U.S. program crops are potentially vulnerable to WTO challenges." When U.S. officials urge the world to embrace free markets and free trade, the inevitable response is, What about your farm programs? "Our credibility is zero," says economist Daniel Sumner, a former Assistant Agriculture Secretary who runs the University of California's Agricultural Issues Center. "Every other country thinks of us as a liar and a crook...
...little desperate--it launched a price war for Christmas toys in early October and then slashed 15,000 prices storewide. It increasingly seems the company's 45-year-old business model--based on a continuously improving supply-chain loop--is better suited to developing economies like Mexico, Brazil and China, where it is doing well, than to mature markets like the U.S. and Japan, where it isn't. In the U.S., same-store sales increases are bumping along at 1% to 2% a month, while rival Target, the fashion-forward, design-centric glamour girl of discounting, runs...
...Still, the skeptics remain, noting for example that the price tag of what was once billed as a $100 laptop is now closer to $200. Moreover, the original strategy of getting six of the largest developing countries - Argentina, Brazil, Pakistan, Thailand, Nigeria and Libya - to commit to buying one million units stalled in August. The governments in China and India have also been resistant, convinced that they can do something similar on their own. Negroponte's response has been to open up the program to individuals and companies, launching in mid-November in the United States a "Give...
...Brazil is a particularly rich source of religious art, because during the 17th and 18th centuries it was the only art form encouraged by the country's devoutly Catholic rulers. In the states of Bahia and Pernambuco in the northeast, and Minas Gerais and Rio de Janeiro in the south, Portuguese settlers built baroque churches dripping with gold, silver and art. But today, much of that art is gone. "The last time I checked, we had registered 188 works of art stolen - that's since 2000," says Vanessa de Souza, a Brazilian police chief and delegate to Interpol. "We think...
...Officials believe, however, that many antique dealers have no idea they are trafficking in stolen goods, because there are hundreds of icons legitimately on the market, having been sold legally by churches or private chapels or imported from dealers abroad. In a bid to track the illicit trade, Brazil's legislature recently passed a law obliging all antique dealers to register with authorities by December. It'll take more than that, however, to trace the stolen goods, says Monteiro...